Digital Catalogue: 2024 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award

Joachim Froese

b. 1963 Montreal Canada, lives Brisbane QLD

Perseverance, Sol 693, Mars, from the series Turned Towards the Firmamant, 2023

UV sensitive unfixed salt print, custom made folder featuring an inkjet copy of original print inside
edition 1/4

Image courtesy of the artist © Joachim Froese

Artist Statement

Since 2004 unmanned rovers explore and photograph the surface of the planet Mars. But the images they present constitute a fleeting illusion; what resembles a landscape on Earth remains an alien and toxic environment.

Merging photographic technologies past and present, I download image files from the NASA website and translate them into handmade, unfixed salt prints. Using a method derived from Henry Fox Talbot’s earliest photographic experiments in the1830s, I stabilise my prints but leave them sensitive to the UV light that was initially used to expose them.

As organic, transient objects they are destined to change and eventually disappear.

About the Artist

Living in Brisbane and Berlin, Joachim Froese works with historic photographic processes which he combines with cutting-edge digital technology.

Over more than 30 years he has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions across Australia, Europe, Asia and North America. His images are held in numerous public collections including the National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.

Froese is an Honorary Lecturer at the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, has held academic teaching appointments in Australia and Germany, and received a PhD from RMIT University in Melbourne in 2017.


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